Joe & Drew,
I was asking if you wrapped your fingers around the barrel habitually? If you do what happens is you build a memory file of what birds/targets look like to you. You retain those visions and apply them when necessary and probably shoot well.
BUT the whole business of fitting a sighting rib is to focus your vision on the target obviously if your digits are in the way you are obscuring the rib. It actually is a case of each to his own, I have a friend who has won the British Skeet championship umpteen times and been an England International for 25 years and he has never cheeked his stock!
